Friday, 9 December 2016

Five On Friday - crochet mania!

Hello, Five On Friday time again hosted by Amy at Love Made My Home. Well my post this week is going to be dominated by crochet, I have been crocheting up a storm just lately. I am pleased to say that I have now completed fourteen blankets for SIBOL (Sunshine International Blankets of Love) and I will be taking these to the residential care home this afternoon.

My fourteen SIBOL blankets (2016)

They have now been packaged and given names - yes, SIBOL blankets have to have a name. I struggled with this bit but thankfully some of my Facebook friends came up with some suggestions to help me. They also all have a crochet butterfly attached (the SIBOL logo).I will show you the last three blankets which have all been completed in the last couple of weeks.I spent nearly all of Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday working on number 14 with breaks only for eating meals to get this completed on time. I have to say I am really pleased with how it has ended up, it was probably the most time-consuming of them all - I do like to make life difficult for myself. I have called this one Jan's Garden.

This is blanket number 13, a straight forward ripple pattern for this one which I can crochet whilst watching TV or listening to music/podcasts or even reading on my Kindle. I have named this one Rippling Brook.

Number 12 has been called Fields of Gold, I came up with this name as I was listening to Alexander Armstrong singing Fields of Gold whilst I was working on the blanket and the colours just seemed to fit.

I am taking a bit of a break from crocheting blankets to do a few projects that have been calling to me but I know I will be itching to get back to blankets before too long. Please visit Amy's link up where there are lots more Five On Friday posts to discover.

19 comments:

The blankets are fabulous. What an achievement making them all to gift, I'm sure the care home and residents will be thrilled to bits with them. What a lovely gesture making the hot water bottle covers for your friend, an awful time of year for the boiler to break down so I bet she was glad of a hot water bottle or two.

Oh Jan how wonderful!!!! I am in awe of the beauty of your work and the amount you have done this year. It is wonderful and you are an inspiration to us all!! Having a little experience of nursing homes from a residents point of view, I am sure that knowing that someone cared enough to make them something special will really have touched the hearts of all of the recipients. You are so very special for having done this. The hottie covers are lovely too and will also have cheered your friend a lot I am sure!! Thank you for being wonderful!

Beautiful crocheting! I love Jan's Garden - so colourful and beautiful. I love your hot water bottle covers. They aren't easy to find over here in America, but I remember having one as a child and on cold nights I still miss it! I think we had them because we had no heat in our bedroom. Brrrr.

They each looked lovely as you did them but seeing all of them together like that is simply stunning. My favourite are the two bottom corner ones - the teal and burgundy and the seaside blues and sand colours. Also think the one on third row down with the diagonals going in different directions is very clever.Hope you are both well. Keith is not too good, saw the doctor last Monday and was referred to hospital - he has an appointment this coming Monday and the speed of that tells me something is wrong. Please keep your fingers crossed for him . Love Helen x

I missed this post somehow Jan. All your blankets are fabulous and I am sure they are much appreciated by their recipients. The love crocheted into them shines out. I love the Painted Roses pattern which will have to join my to do list.

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Hi, my name is Jan and I work part time as a Senior Admin Officer in a Primary School (having taken semi-retirement in January 2015). This is when I decided to start my blog to record my day-to-day life and my interests. I hope you enjoy sharing my ramblings as I chat about my range of hobbies which include reading, photography, walking, crochet, knitting, stitching, researching my family tree, the countryside and natural history.